Penicuik Folk Club and Festival

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BIG NEWS - CHANGE OF VENUE ...

As a result of changes of management and style at our previous venue - the Craigiebield, we are on the move. The Craigiebield is now re-styling itself as a conference venue and the folk club`s activities no longer fit with the hotel`s mission and image.

We are delighted to say that Simon Rennie, the new manager at the Royal Hotel, 34 High Street, Penicuik, EH26 8HU (see map) has expressed considerable enthusiasm for the folk club and he`s looking forward to our first singing session there on Dec 4th and concert on Dec 11th (Ian Bruce).

Your committee is delighted. The Royal is a well-appointed venue, central to Penicuik, on the bus route and has a long heritage. The function room is elegant, well-heated, has good acoustics and is free on Tuesdays. Simon is new to the place - and keen to have us and our music in his hotel. Yippee!

The town of Penicuik has some 15 000 inhabitants, once a mining and papermaking centre - now largely a dormitory for Edinburgh. Penicuik Folk Club meets in the Royal Hotel, 34 High Street, Penicuik. The club holds a concert once each month (generally the second Tuesday of the month) when a professional folk artist or band performs and visitors to the club pay an entrance fee. All other Tuesdays are free Singers Nights.

We book folk musicians and encourage the playing and singing of folk music – but we interpret “folk” very liberally. Many of our guests and regular sessioneers veer into country and western, blues, acoustic rock/pop. We work on the premise that any song has the potential to become a folk song – it just has to be good enough to last long enough to become part of the singing tradition.

There is some information for artistes here
Here is the current List of concerts.
Alan has written a "short" history of the club.
There is a (nearly) comprehensive giglist from 1985-present.
Check out the photos in our rogues gallery.
Here is also a set of rather fine folklinks to clubs, organisations and performers.
And here`s a map of sunny Penicuik
Check out our exact position at using this map taken from streetmap.co.uk
And for a near-as-can-be complete list of Folkie gigs in Edinburgh, ask the Edinburgh University Folk Society - they seem to know!

You can find out more interesting things from the club chairman:-

Brian Miller, 21, Andrew Court, Penicuik, Midlothian, EH26 0HR (+44(0)1968 678 673) brian@penicuikfolk.org.uk

or from the Club Bookings Secretary, who is

Alan Murray, 350, Rullion Road, Penicuik, Midlothian, EH26 9AD (+44(0)1968 678 610) alan@penicuikfolk.org.uk

or from the Club Secretary, who is

Jackie MacDonald, 4A, Kirkhill Gardens, Penicuik, Midlothian, EH26 8JE (+44(0)1968 675 661) jackie@penicuikfolk.org.uk

Published by Penicuik Folk Club webmaster.
350, Rullion Road, Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland EH26 9AD.
Tel : +44 (0)1968 678 610